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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-10
FARM AND FIREslpr

jam Sauce: A teaspoonful 81 w,,.,-
20 half a pot of jam; stir it and mel. i.
on the fire; then strain it and Dom, j.
round yourpudding The Household :
There is no use of a chick or han
having the gapes for twenty-four hours
Anew drops of camphor and water down
the throat is sure cure. Inever knaw
a second dose to fail.-Cor Poultrv
Keeper.
1t is best to soak all onions l,w an
hour or two in cold water. This =.
moves their greenness, and If bakes
afterwards they are far more delieats
Boiling seems to concentrate the odor
of the onion.-Indianpolts Sentincl.
Fried Bread: Take half-pint !,
sweet milk and add a well-beaten eec
and little salt; dip in this slices n Il
bread (if dry let it soak minute) and
fry on a buttered griddle until tin.
light brown on each side. This is a gooa
way to use up dry bread.-Good House.
keepi"g.
-Pocket-Cakes: "Chiloren's pocket,
cakes" may be made of one pintof aour
mixed with the yelk of one egg; sweeten
with a cup of soft brown sugar, flavor
with any favorite seasoning. mace, hit
meg or cinnamon. Roll out quite Tim
and cut in fancy shapes. Bake quickly
The Caterer.
-Currant Cakes: One pound Of flour.
one-fourth pound butter, three-fourtb
pound sugar, four eggs, one-half pound
currants well washed and dredged, one
half teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot
water; one-half lemon, grated rind and
juice; one teaspoonful cinnamon. Drop
from spoon upon well buttered paper
lining a baking pan.-Bake quickly
Toledo Blade.
Good clover hay is well adapted to
the wants of dry cows, to supply their
losses during the milking season. The
dairyman need not waste his straw or
| poor hay; but if he feeds these, 1t should
be in small quantity, with good clever;
or he should give with the straw, wheat
bran, or middlings, oats or corn ground
together, malt sprouts and corn meal;
or two pounds new process linseed meal
with two pounds of corn meal. or some
other grain. to make the straw as good
as clover hay.-Montreas Witness.
| To make Vienna coffee, leach OF
filter the coffee through French filterer
or any of the many cotfee-pots that filter
instead of boiling the coffee; allow one
tablespoonful of ground coffee to each
person and one extra for the pot. Put
one quart of cream into a milk-boiIer,
or, if you have none, into pitcher in !
pail of boiling water; put it where the
water will keep boiling; beat the Whit
of an egg to froth, then add to thu
egg three tablespoonful of cold milk
mix the egg and cold milk thorough!
together; when hot remove the cream
from the fire and add the egg and cox
milk; stir it all together briskly for
minute or two and then serye.--Bossol
Bulletin.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-10
HIGH MANuRING.
Why the Sensible Farmer VIII Not Allow
Depletion of His Soil.


Depletion of His Soil.
How many persons appreciate what
is meant by high manuring? 1t means
simply, fully feeding the soil. The an
imal on short commons makes little
progress toward ripe fairness. It the
same with the soil. The plant food must
be in excess of the full Requirements
of the crop to be raised, with this dill
ference, as in the case of the feeding Of
animals. If something is left in the
soil not required by the crop, the excess
remains in the soil ready for another
crop. If the soil lacks some necessary
constituent, it may not be able to prop
erly assimilate the other constituents
contained in the soil. In feeding AMI
mails, if the food does not contain all
the constituents necessary to the animal
economy, such as may be assimiatea y
taken up, the balance is lost
There is this to say about manurlng.
However little may be given, it helps
and here the value is identical as be-
tween plants and animals, but only BY
high nnanuring-the soil containing ap
excess of food all needed by the crop
can the best and most economical results
be reached. This is fully shown IN gar
dening, as practiced by professionals
The gardener manures to the extreme.
He raises crops year by year q ING
heaviest kind. He perhaps does no'
practice rotation, by which succeed
ing crop may utilize that rejected oy
former crop. At length the garden
soil becomes sick. 1t no longer Pig.
duces as the gardener expects. "nys
The soil has been robbed year by yea
of certain constituents to the exclusion
of others. Here is where lesson may
be learned. Rotation Of crops ALLOWS
pabulum not used by one crop 70 70
taken by another. 1t j. . ques'lVn
| worthy of careful study.
A virgin soil may contain all the con'
| stituents of plant food in abundance
| In time the richest soil will be deplelea.
| The sensible way is never to aiio"
| soil to become depleted. Il costs !! e. %
much to recuperate it-far'a' ~
and Stocknsan.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-10

For an economical pudding take
thin slices of stale bread, butter them
on both sides, cover the bottom of a
pudding dish with them and spread jam
of any kind over them; then add anoth-
er layer, and SO on until the dish is full
Have thin layer of buttered bread on
top. Serve hot, with cream or sustard
made of pint of milk, one cup O.. sugar
and two ggs.-Dostoa Budget.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-10
RUNNING A PAPER.

Every Body Can Do 1t Except the Hard
Working, Patient Editor.
"Now any man can run paper; it's
the easiest business in the world,n said
large, red-faced man. with a small
pug nose, in the waiting-room of a
country railroad station.
THAT'S so, piped UP half-dozen
voices; ''easiest thing 70 the world ="
Justa this point a mysterious stranger
in the corner came forward and in meek
mild voice, tremulous with emotion. he
said: Gentlemen, am most happy to
meet with such an array of talent and
genius as / see before me. Allow me
to ask,a single question of each one of
you individually. What is your bust
ness, my friend?" he said, turning to
the man nearest him.
'sTm butcher, sir.'
"And yoursP'
ga carpenter"
"And yours?"
"a cobbler."
And so he went the rounds of the
company and found an undertaken,
cabinet maker, baker, two farmers and
county pauper-but they were each
and all positive that they could run a
paper. Didn't seem to have the
slightest doubt about it.
''Alasr' said the meek, mysterious
little man, after he had completed his
inquiries, 81 feel abashed and humbled
before this assemblage of talent and
journalistic genius. But do you really
think you can run paper?"
sOf course" they shouted, in chorus
"Well, I can't;'' and the mysteriou:
stranger wept as if his heart would
break.
They looked at him in wondermen
and blank establishment, but at last the
large man with the pug nose asked
with little embarrassment: s.Dardor
me, sir, but what is your busfness?''
81, am an-an editor, SIR sobbet
the mysterious stranger.
20, that accounts for it!'' shouted tn,
crowd IN chorus, and they left th,
weeping man alone with his grief
Lynn Union.
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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22
INTERESTING FIGURES.
The Entire Motive Force of the Civilized
Countries of the World.

The Entire Motive Force of the Civilized
Countries of the World.
From note published by the Bureau
of Statistics in Berlin the following
very interesting figures are taken.
Four-ffths of the engines now work
ing in the world have been constructed
during the last five lustra (25 years..
France has actually 40, $50 stationary
or locomotive boilers. 1000 locomo-
tives, and $50 boats boilers; Germany
has $4,000 boilers, 10000 locomotives.
and LOO ships boilers; Austria, $4,000
boilers and $500 locomotives.
The force equivalent to the working
steam engines represents in the United
States 100000 horse power, in Eng
land 100000 horse power, in Germany
4.50O, 900, in France 5000, 900, in Aus
tria l 800, 900. In these the motive pow
er of the locomotives is not included.
whose number in all the world amounts
to 105. 900. and represent a total of
5000, 600 horse power. Adding this
amount to the other figures. we obtain
the total of 46, 900, 900 horse power,
A steam horse power is equal to
three actual horses power; a living
horse is equal to seven men. The
steam engines to-day represent in the
world approximately the work of a
thousand million of men, or more than
double the working population of the
earth, whose total population amounts
to 1,455, 923. 900 inhabitants. Steam,
therefore, has trebled mans working
power, enabling him to economic his
physical strength while attending to
his intellectual development.-Sc ie'1-
tifc Aanericnn
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22
THE HORSEPOWER.
How 1t Came to BE Applied as a Measure
of an Engines Work.

How 1t Came to BE Applied as a Measure
of an Engines Work.
The use of the horsepower" as a
measure of an engines work came
naturally from the fact that the first
Engines were built to do work which
1ad formerly been performed by horses.
John Smeaton, who built atmospheric
Engines before Bolton and Watt placed
heir more complete machine upon the
market, had valued the work done by
strong horse as equal to lifting weight
Of $4,000 pounds one foot high in
minute. When Bolton and Watt began
20 bid for public favor, they agreed to
place their engines for 1.-THE value of
one-third part of the Goals which are
saved in its use." They also increased
.he value of the horsepower to $4,000
foot pounds, so that their engines were
half again as powerful for their rated
power as those of their competitors.
The following are the various values
Of horsepower: $4,000 foot pounds
per minute, $50 foot pounds per second.
1865 thermal units per hour, 1915 Their
NAL units per minute.
The horsepower of a boiler depends
upon its capacity for evaporation. The
evaporation of so pounds of water
from 100 degrees Fahrenheit into steam
at 20 pounds gauge pressure equals
344 pounds from and at PIP degrees
| Fahrenheit is equivalent to a horse
power.
The amount of water which boiler
will evaporate at an economical rate in
an hour. divided by the above quaint
ties, is its commercial horsepower.
A unit of evaporation is the heat re-
quired to evapOrate a pound of water
from and at PIP degrees=966.1 thermal
units.
A thermal unit is the amount of heat
required to raise pound of water one
Fahrenheit degree in temperature at
its point of maximum density.
One thermal unit is equivalent to 772
foot pounds. The horsepower of en-
gines varies directly as the product OF
the piston area, piston speed and mean
effective pressure. Hence, with the
same mean effective pressure, the
power of engines varies directly as
their piston speed and as the square OF
their diameter. Golden Days.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22
How TO Reduce Your Expenses.

You can do it easily, and you will not have
the contrary, you will enjoy life more than
ever. How can you accomplish this resulta
Easily; cut down your DOCTORS bills. When
you lose your appetite, and become bilious
and constipated, and therefore low-spirited,
don't rush off to the family physician for a
prescription, or, on the other hand, wait
until you are sick abed before doing any
thing at all; but just go to the druggist
and for twenty-five cents get supply of DR..
Pierce'S Pleasant Purgative Pellets. Take
them as directed, and our word for it, your
unpleasant symptoms will disappear as If by
pay, and everybody interested Except the
doctor) will feel happy.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22
THE CONGO PIGMiES.
\ Race of Cunning Liiiput ians Living In the
Heart of Africa.

- Race of Cunning Liiipu tians Living in the
Heart of Africa.
ROMEO de Leo, who travelled many
years in Africa with DR.. Livingstone.
was one who almost stood out alone in
the assertion that a race of dwarfs
lived in Central Africa. In his lee
lures in America he told of little
people who fled to the clefts of the
rocks when the explorers approached.
G. Eugene Wolff, who travelled many
years with Stanley, and who is now in
the city, gives some queer accounts
of these dwarfs. ION the southern
branches of the Congo" said he to a
reporter, Il have seen whole villages
of these Liliputians. They are gem
erous little people, who live in rude
huts and clear ground, engaging in
varied sorts of agriculture. They are
also skilled hunters and they make
palm wine. They are as 1.-the and sup
pie in climbing trees as monkeys or
balloons, although they are physically
as perfect men as any of the giant
tribes thereabout, and they know as
much. The men are not over four feet
and half high, while the women are
a good deal smaller. These tiny little
men are both brave and cunning.
They are experts with the bow and ar
row and readily bring down the Afri-
can bison, antelope and even elephants
with them. As trappers of small ami
mails they are unsurpassed. In close
pinch they use the lance with astonish-
ing deXterity, and an ordinary sling in
their hands is welded with wonderful
skill. The dwarfs collect the sap of
the palm, with which they make soap.
The men are smoCth-faced and of
rich mahogany color, while the hair is
short, kinky and as black as night
Tens of thousands of them live On the
south branch of the Congo. They are
an afElble, kind-hearted people, of
simple ways and devoid of vicious
tendencies to a greater degree than
most senai-barbaric races. The women
are industrious and amiable. Very
queer these people look alongside the
great swarthy blacks further up the
Congo. The latter are of prodigious
size, uncouth, rude TO the remotest de-
gree and enthusiastically inclined The
dwarfs stand in awe of them, but are
SO brave and cunning that, with all
the odds of physique against them, the
pigmies are masters of the situation"
San Francisco Examiner
-Blondin, of tight rome fame. viii.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22
IN A CApUCHIN TOME.
Ghastly Devices and Ornaments Con-
structed Out of Human Bones.

Ghastly Devices and Ornaments Con-
structed Out of Human Bones.
The Capuchin brother. attired In nis
long habit of coarse brown frieZe, his
waist encircled by a hempen rope, his
stockingiess feet bound in sandals, his
untrimmed beard and head bare, eX-
cept for diminutiye skull-cap, is a
familiar sight on the streets in Rome.
an earthen pitcher as a receptacle,
while he begs aims from house to
| house.
The Church of the Fraternity is in
the piazza of the same name in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the Piazza Barber
mi. 1t was founded by Cardinal Barber
I'M brother of Pope Urban VIII, in 1924
the same Cardinal who was the friend
of Milton when he visited the Eternal
City in 1888. The church contains the
tomb of the founder and many remark
able treasures of art, including the
magnificent painting by Guido, repre-
senting michael the Archangel
Trampling the Devil'-tbe latter
portrait of Pope Innocent x. for whom
the painter seems to have had an invet-
| crate hatred.
Passing through the church few
steps to the right will lead you to as
| CHASTITY and at the same time as gro
tesquely horrible n spectacle as the
morbid standardization flesh-creeping
experiences can possibly desire. A
series of four connected small apart
ments, the floors of which are made of
! earth said to have been carried from
| Jerusalem, contain the horrors l speak
of. The walls and ceiling are literally
decorated with oraamented devices
constructed by cunning workmen out
of human bones. The bones of the
vertebra, wrists and ankles are ar
ranged so as to describe circles and
curves. These figures are intersperscd
here and there with skulls. femurs and
humerus, tibias, tibulas. ulnas and
radius.
The same horrid ornaments are az
ranged around the person of deceased
brother, who appears suspended against
! the middle of Il wall, incased in the
coarse brown cloth, the garment he
! lived, died and was buried in. The
dried skin clinging to the face of the
! ekcIeIOu OIlllS III UOIIlDJc IlOChcI1 dS
! the living brother. his former cOmpan-
ion in flesh. conducts you around this
| decorated charnel house. He looks as
though he chuckled over the fact of
having been released from the grave
below to give place to brother more
recently defunct, for it is the rule of
the fraternity-who are compelled to
make small burial ground meet the
requirements of the order-when Il
death takes place to dig up the longest
| inferred to make room for his success
| sOr
There is a quality in the earth EN-
ployed that has the effect of preventing
decay of the body, drying it up in
mummy fashion, and preserving the
hair, presenting Il far more horrible
effect than if bleached bones were pre-
scented to view.
There is a weird uncP nniness about
this strange mixture of the living and
dead, and the latter Invested of So
lemnity by environment of ornamental
osteology, while the air of the survivor
seems toned down to an unnatural
| epulchralness-a sort IF halfway con-
dition between life and the tomb
Rome Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22
A LOST ACCOMPLISHMENT.
Days When Letters Were Worth Watching
For and Worth Having.

Cheap postage, postal cards and the
telegraph have almost crowded letter
writing into place among the lost
arts. When it cost twenty-five cents
to send a communication to distant
relative or friend it was matter of
some consequence to get ones moneys
worth. Letters were days in prepare
ton, and the writer was careful to omit
no detail. This was especially true of
family correspondence. Letters re
ceived in those days were worth watch
ing for and worth having. They were
descriptive of what the author had seen
and heard, contained a message to each
member of the family, and were laid
aside for a second and third perusal
The husband and f;ther who goes
away from home nowadays telegraphs
his safe arrival at his destination in ten
words, sends postal card to the same
effect, or at most writes a letter of
dozen lines, knowing that if any thing
81 Importance happens two cents will
carry the Eews or an hoSir will suffice
for telegram. The days of long
letters are over. A single sheet
of note paper is enough to contain
the: average business, friendly or family
communication. Years ago the CORES
pondence of EOright and able men was
worth publishing for the descriptions
and Opinions itcontained. Volumes of
letters have been printed. and excellent
reading they made. But the CORES
pondence of prOelinent and busy men
of to-day. even to their wives and fam
lilies. would be largely taken up with
dates and signatures That is the tea
deney of the times Reduced postal
rates might Increase Che number of let
tiers written, but it xould not make
them longer or more readable. The
change is only one of the suggestions
instigated by the treasury surplus, and
it may be years before it gets further
than Il suggestion.-Ut Utica Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22
A Pitiab,e Situation.

Nubbs-Dubbs called me liar this
morning.
Bubbs-Well, what did you do?
M haven't done any thing yet.
B.-Well, what are you going to do?
N.-That's just the question. You
see l have been Up at the lakes for a
couple of weeks, and while 1 was there
1 sent several letters to Dubbs telling
him how many trout I had caught.
The party 1 was with came home this
morning and Dubbs had talk with
them, see?
R.-Of course 1 see. It's a mighty
hard case, but under the circumstances
1 think you had better let the matter
drop.
N. with deep sigh guess 1 will
have to.-B0Sto4s Courier.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22

blood and thunder novels are
undoubtedly bad for boys, but it is a
curious fact that many strong-minded
men seek their intellectual recreation
in such literature. The late Prof.
Spencer F. Baird used to take up a
"yellow back after he had gone
through great deal of trying mental
exertion. He said such reading rested
him as nothing else could.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22

CONSUMPTION, Wasting Diseases, and
General Debility. Doctors disagree as to
the relative value of Cod Liver Oil and
Hypophosphites: the one supplying strength
and flesh, the other giving nerve power, and
system. But in Scott's Emulsion of Cod
Liver Oil with Hypophosphit the two are
combined, and the effect is wonderful.
Thousands who have derived no permanent
benefit from other preparations have been
cured by this. SCOTS Emulsion is perfect
ly. palatable and is easily digested by those
who can not tolerate plain Cod Liver Oil.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22
She Couldn't Understand 1t.

"What in the world has happened to you
since the last time / saw yOua" asked one
lady of another when they met on the street
the other day; 81 can't understand it Then
you were pale, haggard and low-spirited,
cared whether you lived or died. To-day
you look ever so much younger, and it is
very evident from your beaning face that
your low spirits have taken flight" Yes,
YOU What drove re them sp' aiwayl It was Dr..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. was a
martyr to functional arrangement until
began taking the Prescription Now am
who suffers as did, ought to let an hour pass
before procuring this wonderful remedy
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22
A Priza of 100000

is good thing to get, and the man who
pected turn of Fortunes wheel, is to be con-
graduated. But he who escapes from the
clutches of that dread monster, CoEsump-
ton, and wins back health and happiness, is
far more fortunate. The chances of win
ming 100000 are small, but every consump-
tive may be absolutely sure of recovery, if
he takes DR.. Pierces Golden Medical Dis
covery in time. For all scrofulous diseases
consumption is one of them), it is an un-
failing remedy. All druggists.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22

OLD pill boxes are spread over the land by
the thousands after having been emptied by
suffering humanity. What a mass of sick
ening, disgusting medicine the poor stomach
has to contend with. Too much strong mcdi-
cine. Pricl1ly Ash Bitters is rapidly and
surely taking the place of all this class OF
drugs, and in curing all the ills arising from
a disordered condition of the liver, kidneys,
stomach and bowels.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22
Needless Alarm

Is experienced by some hdgety people OBJ
servant of unusual paleuess IN their counte-
nances, who experience discomfort in the
region of the stomach or liver, or who pass
restless night or two. These are small
ailments, capable, indeed, of aggravation by
neglect, but easily removable at the start by
the fine assistant of digestion, assimilation
and sleep, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Use
this pure remedy, so admirably adapted TO
family emergencies. Malaria and kidney
complaints are relieved by it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22

said a Duluth kindergarten teacher as she
pointed to the harbor. And after thinking
a moment one of the pupils asked: Don't
ore foghorn and one foghorn make toot
two?"-DH!Gh IGTdgrdpher.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22

OWING to their entire freedom from injuri-
Gus drugs, ''Tansilrs Punch, sc. Cigars are
the most popular in the world.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22

Yes. he called me a liar, an un-
mitigated liar" What did you do
about itP'' Nothing AREN'T YOU
going to resent it?" Eyes. but not un-
Ill the weather gets cooler. ''-Hqrper's
Bazaar.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22

No, YOU may not understand why saw log
is like crank but if you look close you will
see that they are both off their base.-DHluth
PdrdgrGDher.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-22

SEND for Glenn's Sulphur Soap if trou
bled with any disease of the skin.
HIPS Hair and Whisker Dye, soc. The best